Here is how I did mine. I took an old telephone book and removed the pages. I cut them with a rotary cutter measuring 7.5 inches square. This will be the finished sized of the blocks. Then I use a ruller and draw lines on the center where my focus fabric will be. The lines are 1 inch. So I put the ruler from corner to corner wth 1/2 inch on each side and use a marker to draw the line. I do this to each side and this makes a one inch strip. I hope this is clear.

Here is a picture of the finished strip.

03-29-2011, 03:25 PM

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Next I pin a one inch strip of my focus fabric to the telephone paper. Pictured here.

03-29-2011, 03:26 PM

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Then I pin the second strip to the focus fabric strip pictured here. Now when I sew the strips I make sure my catch on my quarter inch foot is on the right side of the line. The lines are a little wider on the paper than the fabric. Oops.

Pictured here.

03-29-2011, 03:28 PM

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After the strips are sewn with a quater inch seem allowance then I press the seem towards the corner, not towards the focus fabric. I continue sewing to each side until I have a piece that looks like this, pictured here.

When I have the foundation telephone paper completely covered with strips, with at least a quarter inch on each side I trim the sides. You want to place the fabric piece upside down on your mat so the paper is showing. Then cut the excess off. Place your ruler on the on the foundation paper hanging over the side a quarter inch and cut. Do this to all four sides and you will have a square that looks like this pictured here.